Product Details
Free Press, January 1999
Trade Paperback, 288 pages
ISBN-10: 0684847965
ISBN-13: 9780684847962
Description
With the same grace and lyrical precision that distinguish his vibrant short stories, James McPherson surveys the emotional upheaval of his last twenty-one years. From Baltimore, Maryland, to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Iowa and Japan, Crabcakes witnesses McPherson's confrontation with the past, and his struggle to make sense of it and to bind it, peacefully, to the present. His elliptical search for meaning -- and his ultimate understanding of what makes us human -- finds in Crabcakes a powerful and enduring voice.
Lev Raphael
Detroit Free Press
All are likely to be moved by [McPherson's] prose, which at times recalls the passion and precision of James Baldwin.
N. Graham Nesmith
Philadelphia Inquirer
Crabcakes is an inspirational story of an individual who gains wisdom from his arduous decisions.
Ploughshares
This beautiful book resonates as a personal meditation on race, self, and community.
V. R. Peterson
People magazine
A thoughtful argument for valuing the rituals which sustain communities.
Mimi McFarland
The Bloomsbury Review
Crabcakes proves once again that James Alan McPherson continues to be of incomparable value, not only to literature but to each of us.
Felipe Nieves
The Cleveland Plain Dealer
As in the dazzling stories of Elbow Room...the writing is clean and crisp....The imagery is spare and on occasion disarmingly moving in its evocative power.
